{"id":56787,"date":"2018-04-19T05:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T05:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=56787"},"modified":"2018-04-19T05:13:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T05:13:22","slug":"this-company-is-making-t-shirts-from-plastic-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/04\/19\/this-company-is-making-t-shirts-from-plastic-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"This company is making t-shirts from plastic bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion company The North Face is collecting discarded plastic bottles from three of America&#8217;s beautiful national parks &#8211;\u00a0Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Great Smoky Mountains &#8211; and making t-shirts and tote bags out of them under the brand name &#8216;Bottle Source&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So far, The North Face has collected around 160,000 lbs of plastic bottles. The collected bottles are ground, melted, and spun into thread that&#8217;s blended with cotton for a soft, comfy fit.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, James Rogers, director of sustainability at The North Face, calls Bottle Source &#8220;the next step in our materials innovation.&#8221;\u00a0One dollar from the sale of each of the item it manufactures will go to the National Park Foundation to support sustainability projects, such as bear-proof recycling bins and reusable water bottle filling stations.<\/p>\n<p>Read full news here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-fashion\/north-face-introduces-t-shirts-made-plastic-bottles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/sustainable-fashion\/north-face-introduces-t-shirts-made-plastic-bottles.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion company The North Face is collecting discarded plastic bottles from three of America&#8217;s beautiful national parks &#8211;\u00a0Yosemite, Grand Teton, and Great Smoky Mountains &#8211; and making t-shirts and tote bags out of them under the brand name &#8216;Bottle Source&#8217;. So far, The North Face has collected around 160,000 lbs of plastic bottles. The collected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}